Merchants, Landlords, Magistrates: The Depont Family in Eighteenth-Century France

by Robert Forster

Originally published in 1980. A social historian of modern France, Robert Forster discovered a series of father-to-son letters that presented an unusual opportunity to trace in human terms the impact of institutions and cultural norms on eighteenth-century French society. From these letters and other family papers, Forster reconstructed a family biography of the Deponts of La Rochelle over four generations. Their story affords new insights into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142143041X
• ISBN13: 9781421430416
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"